> Skips a bit here and there, probably my connection rate.

Try a lower bitrate stream and work up from there. Adjusting the priority of the Jetty process might help, but I haven't tried that myself. Search the Yahoo group archives for more details.

> does shoutcast allow song titles to be streamed as well?

The metadata is inline, about 8K into the song I think. Philip is collecting this info which will be available to drivers via callback in the coming version of the software.

> could those be displayed?

Not for the Rio, at least with the known capabilities of the Rio display app.

> I guess you'd have to know
> when the track stopped and next one started and pass
> it onto the receiver as the next song in the playlist.

Philip and I discussed forcing a new track on the Rio between Shoutcast tracks, but it would have been a nasty kludge.

> anyway to setup album/artists playlists without actually
> making .m3u/.pls files.

Dynamic playlists can do that.

> I can use the recievers UI to select artists, but once
> I look for albums I don't have the artists names
> available anymore.

That's a limitation of the Rio's menuing system.

--Reed